Tagged: biological sciences

DeKalb, Ill. — A $1 million National Science Foundation grant awarded to Northern Illinois University will provide scholarships and mentoring for high-achieving, low-income students pursuing STEM degrees. Spearheaded by Ralph…

Creation of preserve is a dream come true for professors Mitch Irwin and Karen Samonds

April 9, 2018

An international nonprofit organization founded by two Northern Illinois University professors and a foreign colleague is now spearheading the creation of a 65,000-acre, high-altitude rainforest preserve in Madagascar. Anthropology professor…

DEKALB, Ill. – The National Science Foundation has awarded a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) grant of $911,000 over five years to NIU biological sciences professor Yanbin Yin. The…

Most Midwesterners have never encountered a rattlesnake—but the snakes do indeed exist in these parts, though their numbers are dwindling. While you won’t find them slithering along Chicago’s Michigan Avenue,…

NIU biologists help sequence petunia genomes

July 12, 2016

Two Northern Illinois University biologists are key members of an international consortium of scientists that has sequenced and analyzed the DNA of two wild varieties of petunia—a four-year effort that…